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Roxie Roker Quotes

I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality:
Birth: August 28, 1929 - December 2, 1995

Topics

Live People Isolation Wish More See

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Me Color Reality Abstract Expression

In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

Life Racism Moving My Life Escape

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

Basketball Talking Attention Scared

Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.

Love Good Women Culture Man Pain

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Michael Bloomberg

School New York Child College Start

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Remember I Can Builder Inventor Ever

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.

Teacher Money Police School Fun

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

Music God Time Light Space Energy

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Day Start Story Think Interesting

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

Miranda Cosgrove

Love Movies Classic Old Scary Sense

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Experience Pain Government Suffering

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Violent Westerns Nearly

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